Titan Virtual Force - i7 option

OldSkoO1

OldSkoO1

OldSkoO1

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I've never enjoyed console gaming as much as PC gaming so time to buy a new machine.

Just wondered if the i7 option was overclocked on this machine and what the speed is please?

Titan Virtual Force
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/tita...tx-1070-8gb-graphic-fs-002-og.html#t=b1c1d5e1

I opted for these changes:
MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Aero OC 8192MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card
Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM
Samsung PM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive

I assume the cooling is all good?

I'm not sure of the base clock on the GPU so wondered if i picked the right option from the available options.

This is to go with a Dell S2716DG, 1440p 144mhz g-sync.

thanks!
 
I will give you the same advice that I give most people when it comes to pre-overclocked systems.

If you don't know how to overclock yourself, or how to maintain an overclock year after year, don't buy a pre-overclocked system.

These are my reasons:

1)I don't trust anybody to do something like this better than I could do it myself, especially if they are doing it on mass. Every CPU is like a *********. No two overclock alike (due to manufacturing and binning reasons I won't get into here). I don't trust that somebody is going to sit down over a couple of days and tweak and tweak and figure out the exact optimum voltage(s) required for my specific CPU at whatever frequency I (they?) are/am aiming for.

2)Overclocks fail. Eventually, all overclocks will fail. After 1 year, or maybe after two, or maybe after four, but eventually every overclock will become unstable, unless it is a very conservative overclock in terms of the amount of additional voltage being fed to the chip with a frequency that comfortably runs under that voltage. Preferably 0.005 to 0.01V lower than the voltage being fed to it, honestly. Whether this eventual instability will amount to the occasional blue screen, or to a machine that refuses to boot into windows varies on a case by case basis.

See below for 5 to 10 people cutting up this post and saying it's nonsense etc. I have been fixing and overclocking computers for over a decade and this has been my experience. Do you want to wake up one day to a computer that won't boot into windows (or maybe won't even POST?) I'm not saying this is likely but it's certainly within the realm of possibility. Do you know how to fix these problems yourself?

If you want an overclocked system, buy the system stock with overclockable parts (a Z board, a K CPU, and proper cooling setup) and overclock it yourself. Read up on how to reset the bios in case of issues, etc. There are plenty of overclocking guides out there and it's really not rocket science, especially since Intel's Sandybridge five years ago. If you do this you have the added bonus of being able to update the bios to the latest version whenever you want and dialing your overclock back in.

That's just my two cents (or pence I guess).
 
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thanks for your feedback

i don't know how to maintain an overclocked system i guess.

In the past, way in the past, i built my own system and overclocked it. I just routinely ran stress tests and monitored temperatures.

I did encounter instability so i reduced the overclock down a bit.

I'm sure the game has changed in the last 10 years so i will be reading up but also have some help.

The system is bought now, the titan virtual force

changes
i7 6800k @ 4.5
16gb ram 3000mhz
inno3D 1080
ssd 256gb m.2. pm962

everything else just standard inclusions.

these components are OC-ed so i will need to keep an eye on things and learn how to by the sounds of it.
 
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